US approves sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine for $2.1bn — with partners paying

Civilian casualties of russian strikes on 29–31 October and the night of 31 October–1 November — as reported by the authorities (via Ukrinform); the data are incomplete and may rise; the reports cover different periods and are not added up. No reports of casualties from the night attack on 1.11 itself were found in the material read:

• Dnipro (railway station), 29.10 — 15 killed, number injured not given; a jet-powered drone hit the platform where train No. 866 Dnipro–Zaporizhzhia stood (Ukrinform, 30.10, citing Ukraine’s UN ambassador Andriy Melnyk)
• Kremenchuk (Poltava region), date not given in the report — 3 killed, 28 injured (3 of them children) (Ukrinform, 30.10)
• Chernihiv (city centre), 29.10 — 2 killed (two 15-year-old girls), 37 sought medical help (5 of them children); drone strike (Ukrinform, 30.10)
• Donetsk region, 30.10 — 2 killed (both in Sloviansk), 16 injured; about 30 houses, a block of flats, a petrol station and a post office damaged (regional governor Vadym Filashkin, Telegram, via Ukrinform, 31.10 08:23)
• Sumy region, past 24 hours (published 31.10) — 1 killed, 12 injured; 20 attacks (Ukrinform)
• Donetsk region, 31.10 — 1 killed (Sloviansk), 8 injured (Filashkin, via Ukrinform, 1.11 08:10)
• Dnipropetrovsk region, 31.10 — 17 injured; attacks on five districts during the day (Ukrinform, 31.10 18:51)
• Kramatorsk and Sloviansk (Donetsk region), 31.10 — 6 injured; daytime shelling (Ukrinform, 31.10 18:12)
• Zaporizhzhia region, 31.10 — 6 injured; 699 strikes in 24 hours (Ukrinform, 1.11 07:23)
• Sumy region, 31.10 — 6 injured; 27 settlements shelled (Ukrinform, 1.11 08:33)
• Kyiv (Obolon), 31.10 — 1 injured (a 12-year-old girl; the city administration first reported a woman); drone debris fell on a shopping centre (Kyiv city military administration, via Ukrinform, 19:05)

Dnipro railway station, 29 October, daytime. A jet-powered drone hit the station platform where train No. 866 Dnipro–Zaporizhzhia stood, Ukrinform reported (30.10); the latest death toll given is 15. A second strike on the station, injuring one person, was reported separately. 30 October was declared a day of mourning in Dnipro, Chernihiv and the Poltava region. Ukraine’s UN ambassador Andriy Melnyk called the strikes deliberate on X and said Ukraine was calling an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. The material read gives no exact time for the latest update of the toll or the status of rescue work.

Chernihiv and Kremenchuk — nothing new since yesterday’s issue: in Chernihiv a drone killed two 15-year-old girls on 29 October and 37 people (five children) sought medical help; in Kremenchuk 3 were killed and 28 injured (three children), date not given. There is no official total for the three cities apart from the “20 killed” cited by Melnyk.

264 combat clashes on 31 October — the most since 21 October and 47% above the weekly average (179); the heaviest fighting was in the Pokrovsk direction, with 55 attacks against 14 the day before (General Staff report as of 08:00 on 1.11, Ukrinform 08:36; as of 22:00 on 31.10 it was 245 — Ukrinform 23:28). russia carried out 74 air strikes with 230 guided glide bombs (KABs), used 6,505 kamikaze drones and shelled 2,533 times. The named directions account for only about 120 of the 264 attacks; the report does not explain the difference. Attacks by direction:

• Pokrovsk — 55
• Kostiantynivka — 17
• South Slobozhanskyi — 13
• Lyman — 10
• Huliaipole — 9
• North Slobozhanskyi — 7
• Sloviansk — 4
• Kramatorsk, Orikhiv — 2 each
• Oleksandrivka — 1
• Kupiansk — no assaults; Prydniprovskyi — no significant activity

Ukraine’s General Staff puts russian losses in the 24 hours to 1 November at about +2,100 troops — the most since 22 October (total ≈1,590,270); the report is marked “data being updated”, with no independent confirmation. Increases by category:

• Tanks — +1 (total 12,451)
• Armoured combat vehicles — +2 (5,622)
• Artillery systems — +16 (51,755)
• MLRS — +2 (2,249)
• Operational-tactical drones — +944 (591,605)
• Vehicles and fuel tankers — +259 (168,739)
• Ground robotic systems — +9 (3,054)
• Special equipment — +1 (4,861)
• Air defence, aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, ships — increase not given in the source

In the Pokrovsk direction the General Staff report as of 22:00 on 31.10 recorded 55 clashes (near Sofiivka, Toretske, Dobropillia, Bilytske, Vasylivka); preliminary russian losses — 76 killed and 17 wounded, 162 drones destroyed or suppressed. The report mentions no settlements lost or retaken.

🛡️433 drones overnight into 1 November — the most since 15 October (582) and three times the weekly average (147). By the morning 371 (86%) had been shot down or suppressed, according to Ukraine’s Air Force. The report names no missiles, drone types, hit locations or debris sites. During the day on 31 October (06:30–19:30) russia launched another 168 weapons (51 jet-powered drones, a Banderol S-8000): 124 were shot down, ≈30 drones were still airborne.

💥📏 80 km from Ukrainian-held territory ≈Night of 30–31 October: the Kamensky plant (solid rocket fuel production) in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region, near the Ukrainian border. Ukraine’s General Staff (Telegram, via Ukrinform, 12:51 31.10) said the site was hit by attack drones and the Navy’s Neptune coastal missile systems; a fire at the finished-products warehouse and damage to four production workshops were confirmed. Confirmed by the General Staff; no statements by the local authorities for that date were found in the material read, so the verdict is “silent”. The assessment of damage rests on the General Staff alone.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (Rostov region authorities, 31.10): no statements about this site for that date found in search results

💥On 31 October Ukraine’s General Staff (in the same statement, Ukrinform 12:51) also reported hitting four russian military supply depots in the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk regions; the text read names no specific places or results. The reaction of the occupation authorities could not be checked. No new “strike results” from the General Staff since the morning of 1.11 were found in the material read.

local authorities silentLocal authorities (occupation authorities, 31.10): statements not searched for separately, as no sites were named; none found

unverifiedThe Economist (per a Ukrinform headline, 31.10 14:55): russia’s war dead may reach 770,000. The text and method of the estimate were not read, so the figure is given as unconfirmed.

unverifiedUkraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces may account for up to 40% of all enemy kills in October (per a Ukrinform headline, 31.10 14:16, an exclusive with the force’s commander “Veres”). This is the force’s own estimate, not independently verified; the full text was not read.

🛡️The US State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs on 30.10 approved a possible sale to Ukraine of 500 PAC-3 MSE missiles worth $2.1bn (spare parts, logistics, software; contractor Lockheed Martin). It is funded by partners — Canada, Germany and Norway through JUMPSTART, plus money from the EU loan; no US funds. Ukrinform recalls that Zelensky waited almost a month for US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to sign off on missile deliveries for Patriot and NASAMS. There is no contract or delivery schedule yet.

unverified Canada will provide €500m to support Ukraine (Ukrinform, 31.10 06:20, headline); Merz announced a meeting of the “coalition of the willing” in Berlin (30.10, 21:53); Zelensky said negotiating formats that had long been discussed could be achieved in November (30.10, 20:13). The details of these reports were not read.

🏛️ Ukraine is calling an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over the strikes on Dnipro, Chernihiv and Kremenchuk (ambassador Andriy Melnyk, 30.10); Ukraine’s foreign ministry also announced new sanctions against the Rassvet satellite system and the shadow fleet (30.10, 11:04).

💬Sanctions on russia. At a White House meeting ( Washington) on 31.10 with Stephen Hubbard, an American freed from russian captivity, Trump called those who had pressed him for sanctions on russia “stupid people”; russians, he said, “laugh at sanctions”, and sanctions could have prevented Hubbard’s return. According to Ukrinform’s account, Trump also said the US was “right now imposing” sanctions — with no explanation of how. The English original was not read, so no quotation is given.

unverifiedIran. According to Axios (31.10), mediators from Qatar held marathon talks in Tehran, trying to secure a US– Iran deal before the US midterm elections; Ukrinform (31.10 11:58) reports that the Qataris negotiated for 12 hours to restore direct dialogue. In a separate report, Axios said Iran’s supreme leader had ordered a “maximum” response to any US strike. The Axios texts could not be opened (search headlines only); no statements by Trump himself on Iran in the past 24 hours were found.

😄light noteA lighter moment from the same meeting: Trump imagined calling Putin to ask “can you send him back?” — while saying Hubbard had “just come from russia” and that his guards had supposedly treated him fairly well. This is Ukrinform’s account, not a transcript.

🌐G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Atlanta ( US), 30–31.10: according to AFP (via Ukrinform, 17:20 31.10), a US official said the family photo was cancelled to avoid a diplomatic distraction; instead of a joint declaration a US-drafted chair’s report was expected; the G20 leaders’ summit is scheduled for December at Trump’s resort in Miami. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke briefly with Lavrov in a corridor (the description of the talk as “decent” is Lavrov’s own; the report has no words from Rubio). No statements by Chinese officials were found in the material read.

🗣️Sergei Lavrov, russia’s foreign minister, at a press conference after the G20 meeting in Atlanta, 31.10: accused the Europeans of an “arrogant boycott” and praised the Trump administration’s readiness for dialogue with Moscow; he called his talk with Rubio “decent”. Background: according to AFP, EU foreign-policy chief Kaja Kallas called his words “many lies and false narratives”, and the British minister, per a Ukrinform headline, told him russia “will not win this war”. This is AFP’s account via Ukrinform.

🗣️Putin, Peskov, Ushakov, Medvedev, Belousov, Shoigu, Matviyenko, Volodin: no new statements on the war or talks for 31.10–1.11 were found in the material read; older statements (e.g. Ushakov’s of 21.10) are not repeated in this issue.